Dying Quotes

• A decade and a half after victory in the Cold War and end-of-history triumphalism, the 'what do you leave behind' question is more urgent than most of us expected. The Western world, as a concept, is dead and the West, as a matter of demographic fact, is dying.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • War
  • History

• The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Men
  • Science
  • Dying

• I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.

  

  Kristine Opolais
  • Emotional
  • Dying

• Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

  

  Keith Henson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Giving

• What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Trying
  • Jesus
  • Challenge

• I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Children
  • Sick
  • Dying

• We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • Death
  • Collection

• To think that so many have succeeded in dying!

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Dying

• There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.

  

  David Slade
  • People
  • Environment
  • Beginning

• The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Hope
  • Pain
  • Dying

• I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Cancer

• Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Age
  • Choose
  • Reach

• Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the Christian pilgrimage.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Mean
  • Christian
  • Baptism

• It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Giving

• Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • Dying
  • Twilight

• What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Up
  • Dying

• We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Dying

• Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Mountain

• I didn't get to masturbate this morning, and I've been dying to, so I've gotta go.

  

  Anna Nicole Smith
  • Morning
  • Dying

• Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath; Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Death
  • Song
  • Growing

• It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

  

  Anita Baker
  • Parents
  • Dying

• The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • True
  • Nature

• I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.

  

  James Otis
  • God
  • Hand
  • Slavery

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